pdf2txt

This script converts .pdf files to .txt files.

Table of content

• Pre-requisites
  • Python libraries
• Installation
  • Clone
  • Download
• Built With
• How To Use
• Author
• Organization
• License
• Acknowledgments

Pre-requisites

Python libraries

  $ sudo apt install -y python3-pip
  $ sudo pip3 install --upgrade pip

  $ sudo pip3 install argparse
  $ sudo pip3 install xlsxwriter
  $ sudo pip3 install numpy
  $ sudo pip3 install pandas
  $ sudo pip3 install colorama

Installation

Clone

To clone and run this application, you'll need Git installed on your computer. From your command line:

  # Clone this repository
  $ git clone https://github.com/glenjasper/pdf2txt.git

  # Go into the repository
  $ cd pdf2txt

  # Run the app
  $ python3 pdf2txt.py --help

Download

You can download the latest installable version of pdf2txt.

Built With

• XpdfReader: Xpdf is a free PDF viewer and toolkit, including a text extractor, image converter, HTML converter, and more. Most of the tools are available as open source.

How To Use

  $ python3 pdf2txt.py --help
  usage: pdf2txt.py [-h] -f FOLDER_PDF [-o OUTPUT] [--version]

  This script converts .pdf files to .txt files.

  optional arguments:
    -h, --help            show this help message and exit
    -f FOLDER_PDF, --folder_pdf FOLDER_PDF
                          Folder that contains all .pdf files
    -o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
                          Output folder
    --version             show program's version number and exit

  Thank you!

Author

• Glen Jasper

Organization

• Molecular and Computational Biology of Fungi Laboratory (LBMCF, ICB - UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil).

License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 License - see the LICENSE file for details.